Sentences with phrase «additional member system»

They can also be used as part of mixed additional member systems.

The Assembly election uses a form of Additional Member System (AMS), with 14 local constituency seats (spanning two or three London boroughs) with winners elected by «first past the post» (or plurality rule) voting.

Any method of adding MPs to ensure rough proportionality is called additional member system (AMS).

In the Scottish Parliament election, 2016, SNP saw its constituency vote increase slightly (from 45.4 % to 46.5 %) and its regional vote decrease slightly (from 44.0 % to 41.7 %), leading to a decrease from 69 to 63 seats (out of 129) in the additional member system.

The Scottish parliament, and Welsh and London Assemblies all use an Additional Member System, while the NI assembly uses STV (as is also used across the border in the Republic).

The London Mayor, a post that's been around a few years longer than regional Mayors, is elected through another different system: the additional member system.

I am tabling an amendment that would rewrite the referendum question to allow people to choose from a wider range of voting systems, including properly proportional options such as the additional member system (used in elections for the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and Greater London Assembly) and the single transferable vote (used in Northern Ireland).

The proportional representation systems (List PR, the Additional Member System or the Single Transferable Vote) all fit parties» seats won closely to votes shares.

Elections to the Welsh Assembly use the Additional Member System (AMS).

(a) Hold a referendum on voting reform, giving the electorate a choice of the following four alternative voting systems: Additional Member System; Closed Party List; Open Party List; Single Transferable Vote.

John Curtice has shown how the SNP managed to maximise both parts of the electoral system in 2011 to effectively negate the «top up» aspect of the additional member system used for Holyrood.

For half a century Germany has voted in elections to the German Parliament using a purer version of the Additional Member System now in use in Scotland and Wales.

Elections to the Scottish Parliament use the Additional Member System (AMS).

In Scotland the Additional Member System agreed for the Scottish Parliament will hand Labour seats to parties to its right — the Liberal Democrats, SNP and even the Tories will benefit — and almost certainly lose Labour the majority it would have under the present system.

Elections to the London Assembly use the Additional Member System (AMS).

Two options — Alternative Vote Plus (AVP) or the Additional Member System (AMS)-- have the potential to break the current electoral deadlock, albeit in a rather incremental manner.

Through YouGov, we modelled the results under three other voting systems, asking 13,000 voters how they'd vote using the Alternative Vote, the Welsh Assembly / Scottish Parliament's Additional Member System or Northern Ireland's Single Transferable Vote system.

Something like the German AMS (Additional Member System) ensures that every citizen has a constituency MP, even though not all MPs represent constituencies.

In 1987, the Working Party on Electoral Systems recommended the Additional Member System for a Scottish Parliament.

He was at it again yesterday, arguing that our first - past - the - post electoral system leaves voters «remote and unrepresented» and should be replaced with the Additional Member system used in the Scottish Parliament.

The additional member system will be used in next year's elections to the Scottish parliament and Welsh assembly.

The Conservative Party, still recovering from their wipeout in the 1997 UK general election across Scotland, failed to win a single constituency seat but did manage to win 18 seats through the Additional Member System.

The Rosatellum used an additional member system, which act as a mixed system, with 36 % of seats allocated using a first past the post electoral system and 64 % using a proportional method, with one round of voting.

I propose: Additional Member System; Closed Party List; Open Party List; and Single Transferable Vote.

Reynolds himself is calling for a move to the additional member system vote for Westminster elections — the hybrid system used in Scotland and Wales which combines first - past - the - post constituencies with top - up regional seats based on a proportional vote.

«The IPPR have said they would prefer another option altogether - the additional member system - but that's not on the table.

Voting for the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly is done through what is known as an additional member system.

AV + is an additional member system.

The Assemblies were expected to be elected by an Additional Member System similar to those used for the London Assembly, the Scottish Parliament and the National Assembly for Wales.

Mixed member proportional representation (MMP), also called the additional member system (AMS), is a two - tier mixed electoral system combining a non-proportional plurality / majoritarian election and a compensatory regional or national party list PR election.

Since smaller parties are likely, in compensatory systems, to win a larger number of proportional seats, such additional member systems could hand additional political power to the leaders of these parties at the expense of regional directly elected representatives, unless the additional members are elected on an open regional list or a closed regional list as in Scotland and Wales.

The additional member system, used to elect the Welsh assembly and Scottish parliament, has so many virtues it is hard to believe it has not been a serious part of the Westminster electoral reform conversation.

Unlike Westminster constituencies, Assembly constituencies are grouped into electoral regions, and an additional member system is used to elect four additional Assembly Members (AMs)(Welsh: Aelodau y Cynulliad) from each region, in addition to the AMs elected by the constituencies.

«The Additional Member System is already used in Scotland and Wales and we use a form of PR for European Parliament elections, so PR is not an alien concept to British voters.

National, regional, local and European elections already include first - past - the - post, the single transferable vote, the supplementary vote, the additional member system and the D'Hondt system of proportional representation.